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Play by play
- Al Michaels: just calls the game & is so smooth. When you hear his voice you know it's a big game. I still get chills from "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!!!"
- Greg Gumbel: CBS never should have taken him off the #1 NFL team. Solid, funny, and rarely makes a mistake.
- Brad Nessler: With Keith Jackson finally retired, he's the best college football announcer in a landslide.
- Marv Albert: "Yes! And it counts!" He almost makes an NBA game watchable. Almost.
- Ian Eagle, Dan Schulman, Dave O'Brien: all are understated & let the analysts do their job. They all realize I want to watch the game, not them.
- Kevin Harlan: He used to annoy me but he's kind of grown on my through the years.
- Gary Thorne: In the early days of ESPN baseball he got on my nerves. But I really enjoyed he & Bill Clement on ESPN hockey. Now that I listen to him on a regular basis doing O's games, I've become a big fan. He's really good and really honest.
- Jon Miller (on the radio): no one does a better job of painting a picture of what's happening. And he never goes more than 3 minutes without giving the score (he has an hourglass to remind him.) Letting him leave is in the top 3 of Peter Angelos many (& I mean many!) gaffes.
- Phil Simms: He's insightful, funny, and doesn't take himself too seriously. He's by far the best NFL analyst.
- Troy Aikman: He's incredibly insightful as well. Too bad he has to work with Joe Buck.
- Darryl Johnston: When he teamed up with Aikman and a slightly younger Dick Stockton, they were the second-best NFL team behind Gumbel & Simms.
- Solomon Wilcots: He might be the most underrated analyst out there. I'm usually pleased when he & Ian Eagle have the Ravens.
- Jim Palmer: Yes, he has diarrhea of the mouth & a huge ego but he's brutally honest, which is something we don't get a lot out of the Orioles. When he and Thorne do the games together it is a treat.
- Jay Bilas: He's about the only college basketball analyst I can take.
- Rick Manning: He's the Cleveland Indians analyst. He's very knowledgeable and objective.
- Chris Welsh: Outstanding Reds analyst. Too bad he works with such extremes in George Grande ("everything is great!") and Marty Brennaman ("I've got to give my (usually negative) opinion on anything & everything!")
Play by Play
- #1 Chris Berman: All this guy talks about is himself or teams/players that he likes. His baseball nicknames are old and stupid and his Swami act is tired and bad. Please go away. You are the worst thing to happen to TV sports, ever!
- Brent Musberger: The biggest hype-master in a field full of them.
- Bryant Gumbel: Maybe the worst play-by-play announcer ever. Just terrible.
- Joe Buck: It's too bad he's an IU guy - he gives us a bad name. He practically rooted for the Indians in the '97 ALCS, for which I'll never forgive him. He thinks he's so cool, and he's not. He couldn't hold his father's microphone.
- Jim Nantz: Another guy who thinks he's incredibly important and plays favorites.
- Gus Johnson: He wasn't bad at ESPN but now he's awful doing NFL games at CBS. He insults my intelligence by overhyping bad players & teams. Last year he made Andrew Walter the 2nd coming of Joe Montana and the Cleveland Browns a Super Bowl contender. Please go away.
- Dick Vitale: "Dukie V" is loud, obnoxious, uninformed, and cheerleader of whoever is winning (or Duke). And like Berman, he's created a generation of terrible analysts. Last year I finally turned the sound down on him & listened to the IU-MSU game on XM with the MSU announcers. Not surprisingly, they were far more pleasant to listen to.
- Billy Packer: A right-wing kook who shouldn't be on TV.
- Clark Kellogg: His analysis is actually good but he tries to be way too cute and he hates IU.
- Tim McCarver: He was OK about 20 years ago. But he's too full of himself and beats a dead horse forever. He and Joe Buck together are awful. I think I'll watch the World Series with the sound down and listen to Jon Miller call it on the radio.
- Joe Morgan: He's usually insightful but 18 years of hearing how great National League baseball is and how important it is to steal bases & hit and run gets VERY old.
- Any Fox NFL analyst other than Aikman, Johnston, & Siragusa: Why do they all try to sound like John Madden?
1 comment:
What about Mark Malone as a field reporter, or Merrill Hoge as an analyst.
I find your analysis flimsy and superficial. Give me a break, Al Michaels is just a hair better than Dennis Miller.
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